Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-08-18
Several trotting and running horses
have already arrived for the races.

$50 bushels of oats in one hour for
Andrew Abrams. of Mt. Hope.
H. H. Roser, editor of the Western
Good Templer, published at Madison,
has been in the city a few days.
Mr.. Lintner Murphey arrived here
from New York Saturday night for
months vacation. He is employed
by commission house and is doing we'll.
Mr.. Alex Ivey started last Wednes-
day for Beloit, Kansas, where his wife
has been spending the summer. He
will remain till about Sept. and return
with her.
The track is in excellent condition for
the races next week.
Bern Baxter, and Harry Streeter
having in charge his little niece a
daughter of Mrs, Blakeley who has been
visiting here, started Tuesday for Oma-
ha. The boys go there to seek employ
ment. They will take hold of whatever
they can get TO doa first. We wish
them much success,
Mr. and Mrs r. B. Showalter went
on the Normal Review excursion to
Dubuque last Saturday.
Pres. ID. McGregor, of the Platteville
Normal, visited the Institute here We'd
nesday.
Robert Collier aud L. DickensoA of
Patch Grove. we're in Lancaster last
Thursday
| The funeral of Mrs. Phoebe II. Sarles,
mother of John H. Sarles. of Boscobel,
was held at that place last Sunday.
Mrs. Sarles was 81 years of age. Nine
of her twelve children were present,
the average age of whom is over SO
years.
Mr.. Bobel has rented the Central
House, Boscobel, to Mr.. Bishop, who
formerly travelled for Kuh, Nathan d
Fischer Mr. Bobel retains the saloon
and has started another at Richland
Center.
The safe of Hurley, Dasch and Hyde
was blown open last Saturday morning.
Nothing was taken. A newspaper man
got quite exited about it, but before he
sent dispatch to the city papers, and
got the affair ready with double
head lines for his own paper, John
Hurley ''let ON that he had blown it
open himself. In trying to open the
safe the knob pulled off and the lock
dropped down on the side, so the only
chance to open the door was to blow it
open.
Don't fail to attend the races next
week.
The shower last Wednesday night
caught John Wright and Tom Orion up
on Little Green where they with their
wives, had camped for the mig hit, in
tending to fish for day or two. The
location of their camp was where sever
al ravines converg at the foot of the
hills, and it was not long before the
water was coming down in torrents and
flooding them out. They got the la
dies into the carriage, hastily packed
their baggage and fording the swollen
stream, sought refuge IN an unoccupied
house near by. The ford was SO deep
that they had to swim their horses.
Tom wading through ahead with the
water up to his neck. Neither of the
gentlemen are well built for wading in
deep water, but John, being the "brief
err of the two, held the ribbons, while
Tom was elected to do the wading. 1t
was ticklish place to go into in dark
night, but it was q "ground hog case"
They got Strengthened out all right and
had nice time after all.
A Kansas newspaper man referring
to the changes in the faculty of Baker
University, at Baldwin, Kan, says of
the election of Prof. Wood to the pro-
fessorship of mathematics. There were
fourteen for the chair of matthew atics,
all bearing excellent testimonials and
supported by ardent friends. 1t became
very difficult matter to select
from so large and excellent a body
of experienced teachers. After
careful inquiry. the merits of Prof. f
M. Wood became so manifest that he
was unanimously elected on the first
vote. Prof. Wood is about 80 years
of age, married, an alumnus of the class
of 1887 of Allegheny College, Mead.
vile, Pa. Since graduation he has been
engaged in the educational work. He
has been promoted from one position
to another until he has made a fine rep
utation as an educator. Had 1t not
been for his desire to come to Kansas,
Baker University would not likely
have succeeded in inducing him to re-
signhis present professorship in the
South West State Normal of Pennsyl-
vania.
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